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    Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

    Thanks for the reply! I'm using a smart phone but there's no icon or tool bar like there is when I'm on other sites. I read where someone else had this problem and they said you have to be active on this sight for so long before you can post pics. I'll keep trying!! Thanks again!
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    Nice!
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    Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

    How do you post pics on here?? I don't see an icon or any kind of option to put up a pic.
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    Broody hen is killing her babies as they hatch...

    Last spring I had a hen do something similar. She would wait until they hatched before she would kill them but as soon as one would hatch she would raise up and peck it to death. I took the remaining eggs and put her in a different pen and this year she hatched a clutch and raised them like a...
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    Hawks?

    I have been keeping and raising chickens for 20+ years and have around 100 chickens including juveniles and chicks and hawks are my biggest predator problem and always have been. I've lived in two different places with my chickens and hawks have gotten more of my chickens then all other...
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    Do possums eat the chickens or the eggs or both?

    They mainly eat eggs but will kill and eat a chicken if given the chance. I've never had one kill an adult standard size bird but I've lost chicks and juvenile birds to them. To answer your other question about if there's one is there more, normally yes! I'm dealing with possum problems right...
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    Game Hen defends her chicks

    I raise game chickens along with laying chicken and show birds. Game roosters will not tolerate ANY other rooster. Once they "come to game" , mature, they will fight any other rooster until it runs off or is killed. You must pen the roosters. However game hens can co-exist with other breeds of...
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    Setting up an electric fence

    An electric fence is great to have to help detour predators but it's just that, a detour. Feeding predators lead is the permanent solution and works better than anything! Protect your chickens!
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    Any guesses?

    Agree donrae ..cockerel
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    what chicken is laying?

    Not sure about quail..thats something thats new to me. I just got my first bunch of quail about a month ago!
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    what chicken is laying?

    You can usually tell if a hen is laying by picking her up and between the end of the breast and the vent are two bones, if you can fit two fingers between them easily they are laying. This works on all breeds of poultry even bantams! Good luck!
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